Books like Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
Lucy, growing up in an Australian household with a Chinese immigrant family, faces the difficult task of reconciling her cultural roots with the expectations of a prestigious private school. Confronting issues of identity, race relations, and the pressures of school cliques, Lucy’s story explores the everyday challenges that young girls of Asian descent encounter in a multicultural society.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Children's Fiction/Early Readers
Authors: Alice Pung
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